The Federal Opposition has urged the Government to ensure the Army's traditional slouch hats are manufactured in Australia. The comments from the Opposition's defence personnel spokesman, Bob Baldwin, ...

Akubra Hats has won a contract worth $5 million to supply the iconic slouch hat to the Australian Defence Force. The NSW business will make 50,000 hats for the Australian Army and Royal Australian Air ...

YOU’VE heard of the Big Orange and the Big Banana — now an Adelaide RSL wants its own giant army hat — as voting begins in the Fund My Neighbourhood program. But those behind a proposal to build a big ...

A BIG slouch hat proposed for an Adelaide RSL — which appeared dead and buried several months ago — is now expected to be built by December, but it won’t be quite the same. The Gilles Plains and ...

Few things symbolise the Australian military and the Digger spirit quite as well as the iconic slouch hat. I am passionate about amplifying people's stories and trying to do them justice in the ...

SECOND World War veteran Keith Williams was presented with a slouch hat by the army this week - 65 years after having his own hat stolen. The 89-year-old was moved by the occasion and when asked what ...

The federal government is being urged to buy Australian and ensure the production of national icons, such as the slouch hat, is not sent overseas. The distinctive hat worn by Australian diggers could ...

Few things symbolise the Australian military and the Digger spirit quite as well as the iconic slouch hat. I am passionate about amplifying people's stories and trying to do them justice in the ...

DIGGERS ordered not to wear the famous Rising Sun badge on the downward brim of their slouch hats, as it's deemed "inappropriate". Chief of Army Lieutenant-General David Morrison said it was ...